INDIA
Hindustan Times
Ramesh Babu
Thiruvananthapuram
Kerala Police on Saturday booked eight persons, including five nuns, for allegedly covering up the rape of a 16-year-old girl by a church priest. The girl later gave birth to a baby boy in a hospital and the child was shifted to an orphanage controlled by the church.
The main accused, Father Robin Vadakkumcherry, vicar of the St Sebastian church in Kottiyoor, was arrested on February 27 while planning to flee the country.
All the accused, including two doctors and five nuns, will be charged under POCSO (Protection of Children from Sexual Offences).
“We are investigating all angles. All accused will be arrested soon,” Kannur superintendent of police Shiv Vikram told Hindustan Times.
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